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Local rock superstars Paramore are currently out on the Honda Civic Tour -- which comes home on August 21 for a show at the Municipal Auditorium. And while the band travels, singer Hayley Williams is letting fans and friends in on the nitty-gritty via a blog/tour journal on MTV.com.

In an entry posted Monday, Williams takes on the oft-tackled topic of being a woman in a band full of dudes.

"In every interview we've ever done, I get asked the question, 'What's it like being the only girl in the band?' or some other version of it," Williams writes. "It's not that it's annoying, it's just that I wonder what's so fascinating about it. . . . But I guess, sadly enough, I do recognize that it's still pretty rare to see a girl fronting a band and commanding a stage. Have you ever wondered why it's so difficult for girls to get into scene and be taken seriously? I have."

Williams and Ke$ha are tied with a total of four nominations. Williams has three for her collaboration with rapper B.o.B. on "Airplanes," and one more for Paramore's "Ignorance." Ke$ha's noms include three related to her breakout video "TiK ToK" and one for her collaboration with electronic pop duo 3OH!3 on "My First Kiss." Swift brings up the rear (for once) with a single nomination for "Fifteen."

Still, they've all got some stiff competition from the unstoppable pop force that is Lady Gaga -- the head-turning star has broken the VMA record for the most nominations in a single year with 13 total nods.

If you managed to snag a seat at Adam Lambert's sold-out show at the Ryman on July 7, you should probably plan on bringing some energy.

The American Idol runner-up tells MTV News that the shows are largely dependent upon the audience's vibes.

"Nothing's as planned as people think. ... I'm kind of fly by the seat of my pants," Lambert said. "It's like a mirror... and whatever the audience is throwing at you, you kind of reflect, and vice versa. If I'm feeling a bunch of people viscerally wanting to grab at me, I'll let them grab at me, if I can reach them. ... If there's a cute boy in the audience, I (might) get a little ...you know."

Wasn't but a month or so ago that word started getting around about young singing, acting superstar Miley Cyrus' upcoming break from music.

"The more I make music that doesn't truly inspire me, the more I feel like I'm blending in with everyone else," Cyrus told Teen Vogue recently. "So after this next album, I'm taking some time off."

The first step toward that break is on its way: Cyrus' official site, www.mileycyrus.com, shared news Monday (April 26) that her next album, Can't Be Tamed, is due out come June 22, with its leadoff single title track premiering on MySpace Friday (April 30) and making its way to radio on May 3. That single will also be available for download come May 18.

MTV.com notes that the pop star's label, Hollywood Records, categorized the single as "a self-empowering song in which Miley asserts that she has to stay true to herself in relationships," and said that "it is sure to become an anthem among her legions of fans around the world."

We think one-time Tennessean and current global pop sensation Ke$ha might be pulling MTV's leg in this video segment. Among the little-known facts about herself that she shares: She's psychic, swims through shipwrecks and is haunted by a ghost throughout the continental United States.

But while she's sharing that last "fact" comes a statement we're taking a little more seriously.

"He or she has followed me from my residence in Los Angeles to my home in Nashville, Tennessee..."

It's settled, then -- Ke$ha is claiming herself as Music City's own. We'll vouch for her on that front, but as for her clairvoyance and scuba-diving prowess? We're going to need some hard evidence.

The band got an invite to participate in New Moon, Williams told MTV, but they opted to sit out, feeling like they "didn't want to force anything."

That said, Williams also noted that she and her bandmates aren't ruling out the possibility of jumping back into the vampire-soundtrack fray when the time comes to herd sounds for the third hunk of Twilight, Eclipse.

"We'll see what happens in the future," she said. "I don't know — if it feels genuine. If we write a song, and I feel like it goes with it, I wouldn't turn it down, but I wouldn't force it."

Local major-label rock crew Hot Chelle Rae is tipped off, along with current pop mega-breakout-star (and former local) Ke$ha.

Since you couldn't possibly hope to escape Ke$ha's chart-dominating "TiK ToK" hit at the moment, check out Hot Chelle Rae's "I Like To Dance" video below. And check out the rundown of MTV's "Artists To Watch" HERE.

Former Middle Tennessean/pop bad girl Ke$ha talked with MTV News about current Middle Tennessean/country good girl Taylor Swift, and, it seems, the two might have more in common than you'd think.

Case in point: Both are pretty willing to detail romantic mishaps pretty frankly in song. Ke$ha, for her part, has a song called "Stephen" on her upcoming Animal album (more detail about that set here) that digs into a long-held unrequited love affair.

"I'm really excited for people to hear (the song, which) I wrote about this guy that I've been stalking since I was, like, 15," Ke$ha told MTV News. "But he's a total loser, so I don't want to glorify him in any way." Pair that with, say, Swift's "Forever & Always," about a certain "scared little boy," and you've got a nice -- if stylistically schizophrenic -- start on a heartbreak mix.

MTV asked the pop newcomer if she'd be into a Swift collabo, and, unsurprisingly, Ke$ha was plenty down with the idea of teaming with 2009's biggest musical success story.

"Oh, I love her! Yes! I would totally collaborate with her," Ke$ha told MTV. "But I think I would scare her, to be honest. ... But yeah, I really love, love the way she writes, because you can tell it's real and you can tell it's honest, so I do think there's that similarity in our writing styles. You can tell she's talking about a very specific situation, and you know it's real."

Read the full story from MTV News here. Read our recent interview with Ke$ha here.

"When we were recording our record, we recorded it right down the street, and a lot of days we would come here for lunch and just talk," frontwoman Hayley Williams told them. "And that was at a time when we weren't really talking a lot, either, so those moments where we would actually hang out were special and awesome and kind of few and far between for a little bit."

Puckett's sent out an email earlier this week with feedback from owner Andy Marshall:

"Over the last few years, it has been so cool to watch a local band like Paramore achieve success on a national level. We are so thankful that they chose Puckett's as a great place to eat and hang out."

You can read the full article and check out a brief accompanying clip here.

As previously mentioned, Paramore is streaming their forthcoming third album, brand new eyes, in its entirety on their official site. We're not ready to weigh in on its merits yet, but we'll say it's definitely worth a listen.

And, now! West, appearing quite contrite, turns to his blog to apologize again to Swift, this time in the form of an analogy, and in sentence case.

"I feel like Ben Stiller in 'Meet the Parents' when he messed up everything and Robert De Niro asked him to leave...," West wrote. "That was Taylor's moment and I had no right in any way to take it from her. I am truly sorry."

West is scheduled to be take part in the debut episode of Jay Leno's new The Jay Leno Show tonight (Mon., Sept. 14), alongside Jay-Z and Rihanna. Jerry Seinfeld is also slated to appear. The show is scheduled for 9 p.m. central on NBC.